November 2013 Skeptical Crossword – Solution
November 2013 Picture Puzzles – Answers
1. Waste of time
2. Too clever by half
3. Foreign Legion
4. Low fat diets
5. Interior Design
6. To ‘ell with it
7. A maze in grace
November 3013 “Mixed Bag”- Answers
1. Cabbage(21), pea(22), Leek(33), carrot(75)
2. (a) Martin; (b) George; (c) Lennox; (d) Michael; (e) Cameron
3. It was the first to be televised in Australia
4. Warren Mitchell
5. Gemstones
6. Sicily
7. 1994
8. 1500 metres
9. Foxy Loxy
10. Groucho Marx
“Next Level”:
11. Duke of York (later King George VI)
12. The first (and only?) married couple to fly together in space
13. Prince William
14. a tennis surface as used in The Australian Open
15. 1905
16. 2003
17. Goal keeper
18. 1929
19. United States and Britain
20. William Wyler (12)
21. San Juan, Puerto Rico
22. Sensis
23. All ships of The First Fleet
24. eleven
25. First to swim the English Channel underwater
26. He discovered that rubella in pregnancy can cause congenital blindness and deafness
27. Elizabeth Arden
28. On the moon
29. Ireland
30. Survived a 5 km fall without a parachute (practically unscathed)
“Mixed Bag” Questions November 2013 – Answers
1. Cabbage(21), pea(22), Leek(33), carrot(75)
2. (a) Martin; (b) George; (c) Lennox; (d) Michael; (e) Cameron
3. It was the first to be televised in Australia
4. Warren Mitchell
5. Gemstones
6. Sicily
7. 1994
8. 1500 metres
9. Foxy Loxy
10. Groucho Marx
“Next Level”:
11. Duke of York (later King George VI)
12. The first (and only?) married couple to fly together in space
13. Prince William
14. a tennis surface as used in The Australian Open
15. 1905
16. 2003
17. Goal keeper
18. 1929
19. United States and Britain
20. William Wyler (12)
21. San Juan, Puerto Rico
22. Sensis
23. All ships of The First Fleet
24. eleven
25. First to swim the English Channel underwater
26. He discovered that rubella in pregnancy can cause congenital blindness and deafness
27. Elizabeth Arden
28. On the moon
29. Ireland
30. Survived a 5 km fall without a parachute (practically unscathed)
Science Talent Search 2013
by Chris Guest
For the 11th consecutive year, the Australian Skeptics are a proud sponsor of the Science Teachers of Victoria’s annual Science Talent Search. 2013 marks the sixty-second year of this important event.
Each year thousands of Victorian school students from lower Primary to Year 12 enter science projects in the categories of experimental research, working models and inventions, computer programs, science photography, games, essays and posters in a state wide competition.
This is a small sample of entries in last year’s Working Models and inventions category. (Click on the picture to enlarge it).
October Puzzles
New Picture Puzzles and “Mixed Bag” Questions are in place on our PUZZLES PAGE.
This month’s CROSSWORD PUZZLE is the third in our series on the Logical Fallacies theme.
And as always, there’s a set of MATHS & LOGIC PROBLEMS
Enjoy!
October 2013 Logic & Maths Problems – Solutions
1. 4 tonnes
2. Behind him / backwards
3. The US gallon is only four-fifths the volume of the English gallon
4. a. Paul b. Striped c. Paul d. Plain
5. 17 and 7 years old
6. a. yes b. no c. yes d. yes
7. 7
8. less
9. a. 20 cubes b. 56 cubes
10. – 40 degrees C is the same temperature as – 40 degrees F
October 2013 Mixed Bag – Answers
1. Eleven times
2. Corsica belongs to France; the other three belong to Italy
3. 1978
4. Hands and feet
5. Groucho Marx
6. Africa
7. They are claimed by six different countries
8. Fennel
9. The Avengers
Cathy Gale was played by Honor Blackman
Emma Peel was played by Diana Rigg
10. prosthesis
“Next Level”:
11. London Underground Map
12. 100:1 winners of the Melbourne Cup
13. Vegemite
14. on top of pillars
15. Ytterby
16. Finland
17. Hanged her nephew’s dog for chewing her bible
18. Permanent crease trousers
19. Vegemite (reason: it’s biggest competitor was Marmite)
20. Istanbul
21. Green, Berry and Hill
22. The Pelican
23. smothered to death by gifts of cloaks showered upon him by appreciative citizens
24. dishwasher
25. Oscar Wilde
26. from a lethal combination of indigestion and uncontrollable laughing
27. Construction / building
28. Ray Barrett
29. John Irving
30. Broke into Queen Elizabeth II’s bedroom
September Puzzles
Our Puzzles for September 2013 have been posted.
- There are the usual seven Picture Puzzles, each of which decodes to a word, phrase, song title, book, or film.
- The “Mixed Bag” Questions have an added feature. After the usual ten questions, we’ve added twenty “next level” questions. These are, depending on your point of view, interesting, difficult, informative, quirky or totally unfair. A score of one out of twenty could be considered surprisingly good! The Picture Puzzles and Mixed Bag Questions have pride of place on our PUZZLES PAGE.
- Our Skeptical Crossword is the second of three on the the theme of Logical Fallacies. It can be found HERE. Logical Fallacies Crossword (1) was posted back in July 2012 and can be found HERE. We expect Locial Fallacies Crossword (3) to follow next month.
- The Logic & Maths Problems can be found HERE